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 Yahoo! & IDT Join Forces to Bring Internet Phone Services
Worldwide
New Service Saves Yahoo! Users Time and Money on National
and International Calls
Santa Clara, Calif. & Hackensack, NJ. - March 25, 1998 - Finding
and contacting relatives and friends just got easier. Today, Yahoo!
Inc. and IDT Corp. announced that Yahoo! People Search (www.yahoo.com/search/people),
Yahoo!®'s white pages directory service, is providing users
the ability to call any phone number around the world from their
computer through IDT's Net2Phone service. Now, users looking up
phone numbers on Yahoo! People Search can conveniently phone other
individuals through the Internet and save up to 95% on long-distance
phone calls.
"Yahoo! continues to bring together the best communication
resources for our users to easily find and connect with each other,"
said Jeff Mallett, chief operating officer at Yahoo!. "Combining
People Search with Net2Phone helps us bring together more people
in a way that hasn't been done before." "We are proud
to be supplying Internet telephony solutions for Yahoo!'s millions
of daily users," said IDT's Net2Phone President, Cliff Sobel
. "This agreement enables the best-branded Internet guide and
Internet-based long distance service to combine their strengths
and bring top quality services to consumers and businesses worldwide.
Now many more people can take advantage of the power of the Internet
to find people, connect with them and save money on long distance
phone calls in the process." Net2Phone enables Internet users
to place calls to any telephone in the world via the Internet, transforming
computers into full service communication devices, at reduced rates.
According to BT Alex Brown, the deregulation of the $600 billion
global telecom market and the coming collision between the Internet
and telephony, is estimated to result in a billion-dollar Internet
telephony market by 2002.
Find a Number, Make a Call
To make phone calls using the new service, users need simply to
download and install the free Net2Phone software available at Yahoo!
People Search and have a microphone and speakers for their computer.
The Net2Phone service is seamlessly integrated into Yahoo! People
Search, allowing individuals to find a person's phone number in
the white pages directory and then automatically call that person
by clicking on the phone number. Recipients on the other end of
the call do not need to be online to receive Net2Phone calls. They
can answer their telephone just like they would a regular phone
call. Because the calls are placed through the Internet directly,
phone rates are not based on the country of origin, but on the low-cost
pricing structure set by IDT for the number being called. This results
in cheaper long-distance phone calls both nationally and internationally
for users of the Net2Phone service.
In addition to the phone number click-to-dial program within Yahoo!
People Search, Net2Phone is being promoted and made available within
relevant areas of the Yahoo! network of properties, including Yahoo!'s
world sites.
About IDT
IDT Corp. (NASDAQ:IDTC) is a leading emerging multinational carrier
that combines its position as an international telecommunications
operator, its experience as an Internet service provider and its
leading position in Internet telephony to provide a broad range
of telecommunications services to its wholesale and retail customers
worldwide. The company provides its customers with integrated and
competitively priced international and domestic long distance, Internet
access and, through its Net2Phone product offerings, Internet telephony
services including Net2Phone direct and Net2Fax.
About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is a global Internet media company that
offers a network of branded Web programming that serves millions
of users daily. As the first online navigational guide to the Web,
www.yahoo.com is the single largest guide in terms of traffic, advertising,
household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized
brands associated with the Internet. Yahoo! Inc. provides targeted
Internet resources and communications services for a broad range
of audiences, based on demographic, key-subject and geographic interests.
Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
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